Excerpt from August 24, 1737 Minutes, ca. 1757 - 1
1media/p15150coll7_57267_full_thumb.jpg2021-11-06T09:25:43-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001Excerpt from the minutes of a 1737 August 24 Provincial Council.plain2021-11-06T09:25:43-07:001757Walking Purchase collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.In secretarial hand. Watermark: Royal Arms under Garter / GR under crown. Cf. Gravell, 1755. Cf. Pennsylvania Archives, vol. 1, pp. 539-543; William Joseph Buck. History of the Indian Walk: Performed for the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania in 1737, to which is Appended a Life of Edward Marshall (Edwin S. Stuart, 1886): 69-70. The minutes of meeting of the Provincial Council, a day before the conference between the Penn brothers and the Delaware chiefs in Stenton. Thomas Penn reported on the previous conferences with the Indians "to adjust some Matters relating to Lands lying in the Country of Bucks which tho formerly fully and absolutely released by the Indians then inhabiting those Parts to his Father yet they had of late made some claims to them." Most likely, the excerpt was prepared in the course of the 1757 investigation.Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
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12021-11-06T08:11:17-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aExcerpt from August 24, 1737 Minutes, ca. 1757Will Fenton2(path)gallery2021-11-06T09:26:18-07:001757n/aWalking Purchase collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.In secretarial hand. Watermark: Royal Arms under Garter / GR under crown. Cf. Gravell, 1755. Cf. Pennsylvania Archives, vol. 1, pp. 539-543; William Joseph Buck. History of the Indian Walk: Performed for the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania in 1737, to which is Appended a Life of Edward Marshall (Edwin S. Stuart, 1886): 69-70. The minutes of meeting of the Provincial Council, a day before the conference between the Penn brothers and the Delaware chiefs in Stenton. Thomas Penn reported on the previous conferences with the Indians "to adjust some Matters relating to Lands lying in the Country of Bucks which tho formerly fully and absolutely released by the Indians then inhabiting those Parts to his Father yet they had of late made some claims to them." Most likely, the excerpt was prepared in the course of the 1757 investigation.Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a